I am walking the learning curve on one of Atmel's ARM-based
microcontrollers.
Nice hardware, but painfully opaque to program -- at least t first blush.
The part is Atmel's AT91-FR40162, a ARM 7.

Nothing in the examples takes me far enough to go off and write even
simple code. The examples in the Atmel lib are a start. But unless
assembler is your first language, they don't shed the kind of light on
the general operating principles that a set of structured tutorials
would.

Do any of you have any pointers/suggestions for a quick bootup on this
part?
Or experience with the AT91 series in general?